Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 14

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  Prince Maurice of the Palatinate
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  Charles Babbage
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  German troops marching by the Arc de Triomphe
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  Title page of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum
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  Bear Flag of the California Republic
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  Babbage's difference engine
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  Thabo Mbeki
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  1777 U.S. flag
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  Grenfell Tower ablaze

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Flag Day in the United States (1777);	refimprove (orange-tagged)
Liberation Day in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (1982);	date not cited, unreferenced sections
Liberation Day in the Falkland Islands (1982)	both of the two possible targets are stubs
1285 – Forces led by Prince Trần Quang Khải of Vietnam's Trần dynasty destroyed most of the invading Mongol naval fleet in a battle at Chương Dương.	Unable to ascertain the date. The article states "On the tenth day of the fifth lunar month (June 14) 1285" but Battle of Chương Dương shows June 24th in the infobox.
1645 – English Civil War: In the Battle of Naseby, the main army of King [[Charles I of England|Template:Nowrap]] was defeated by the Parliamentarian New Model Army under Sir Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell.	refimprove section
1775 – The United States Army was founded as the Continental Army by an act of the Continental Congress.	refimprove section
1807 – In the last major battle in the War of the Fourth Coalition, the French defeated the Russians at the Battle of Friedland near present-day Pravdinsk, Russia.	refimprove section
1821 – The Funj Sultanate, in present-day Sudan, was conquered by Egypt without a fight.	contradictory: conquest article says June 12
1949 – Albert II became the first monkey in space, reaching an altitude of 134 km (83 mi) in a [[V-2 rocket|Template:Nowrap rocket]].	several inline citations missing
1982 – Argentine forces surrendered to the British, essentially ending the Falklands War.	lots of CN tags (21)
1985 – TWA Flight 847 was hijacked shortly after takeoff from Athens; the situation lasted for three days as the hijackers traveled back and forth several times between Beirut and Algiers.	refimprove section
1985 – The Schengen Agreement, a treaty to abolish systematic border controls between participating European countries, was signed between five of the ten member states of the European Economic Community.	needs more footnotes
1994 – After the Vancouver Canucks lost to the New York Rangers in ice hockey's Stanley Cup Finals, a riot ensued in Downtown Vancouver, causing Template:Nowrap in damage.	most of the riot description is unreferenced
1999 – Thabo Mbeki took office as the second President of South Africa.	unreferenced section
[[W. W. E. Ross|Template:Nowrap Ross]] |b|1894	lots of quotes
Margie Hyams |d|2012	see [1]
* 1882 – Ōyama Sutematsu graduated from Vassar College, becoming the first Japanese woman to graduate from university.	Article only says she was among the first two to attend college, first to graduate claim is not cited and a books search shows support only for "first Japanese woman to graudate from and American [or Western] university".
Thomas Pennant |b|1726|	date uncited
Antonio Sacchini |b|1730|	date uncited

Eligible

• 1646 – Franco-Spanish War: French and Spanish fleets fought the inconclusive Battle of Orbetello, with sailing vessels of both sides having to be towed into action by galleys due to light winds.
• 1777 – The Second Continental Congress adopted the stars and stripes design for the flag of the United States.
• 1800 – War of the Second Coalition: In the Battle of Marengo, Napoleonic forces secured victory over the Habsburgs when defeat had appeared inevitable until the arrival of French troops led by Louis Desaix.
• 1822 – In a paper presented to the Royal Astronomical Society, English mathematician Charles Babbage proposed a difference engine (pictured), an automatic, mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions.
• 1846 – Settlers in Sonoma began rebelling against Mexico, later proclaiming the California Republic and raising a homemade flag with a bear and a star.
• 1900 – The second of the German Naval Laws was passed, authorising the doubling in size of the Imperial German Navy.
• 1934 – The landmark Australian Eastern Mission concluded after a three-month diplomatic tour of East and South-East Asia.
• 1940 – The Soviet Union issued an ultimatum to Lithuania demanding that the Red Army be allowed to enter the country and form a pro-Soviet government.
• 1940 – Second World War: Four days after the French government fled Paris, German forces occupied the French capital, a major accomplishment in the Fall Rot operation.
• 1944 – Second World War: The British Army abandoned its attempt to capture the German-occupied city of Caen.
• 1966 – The Vatican formally abolished its 427-year-old list of prohibited books.
• 1971 – Emerson, Lake & Palmer released the progressive rock album Tarkus.
• 1982 – Falklands War: British prime minister Margaret Thatcher announced that white flags were flying over Port Stanley, in advance of the formal surrender of Argentine forces.
• 1992 – Swedish woman Helena Andersson disappeared in Mariestad, one suspect were ”the man with the pilot glasses".
• 1996 – After an 81-day standoff sparked by their refusal to be evicted from their foreclosed property in Jordan, Montana, the Christian Patriot group Montana Freemen surrendered to the FBI.
• 2017 – A fire severely damaged Grenfell Tower in North Kensington, London, killing 72 people.
• Born/died: | Henry Vane the Younger |d|1662| Harriet Beecher Stowe |b|1811| Priscilla Cooper Tyler |b|1816| Qalaherriaq |d|1856| Leonidas Polk |d|1864| Alois Alzheimer |b|1864| Anna B. Eckstein |b|1868| Karl Landsteiner |b|1868| Mary Cassatt |d|1926| Emmeline Pankhurst |d|1928| Donald Trump |b|1946| Jang Jin-young|b|1972| Alan Carr|b|1976| Heike Friedrich |b|1976| Burhanuddin Harahap |d|1987| Moon Tae-il|b|1994| Mimi Parent |d|2005| Qiao Shi |d|2015|

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• 1381 – During the Peasants' Revolt in England, rebels stormed the Tower of London, killing Simon Sudbury, Lord Chancellor, and Robert Hales, Lord High Treasurer (both pictured).
• 1644 – First English Civil War: Prince Maurice abandoned his siege of Lyme Regis in Dorset after learning of the approach of a Parliamentarian relief force.
• 1934 – The landmark Australian Eastern Mission concluded after a three-month diplomatic tour of East and South-East Asia.
• 2014 – War in Donbas: An [[Ilyushin Il-76|Ilyushin Template:Nowrap]] transport aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down by forces of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic, killing all 49 people on board.